Submissions from 2025
Enhancing public transportation sustainability: Insights from electric bus scheduling and charge optimization, Foroogh Behnia, Seyyed Sajad Mousavi Nejad Souq, Beth-Anne Schuelke-Leech, and Mitra Mirhassani
Operation estimation on multiple public transport timetables integrated with vehicle scheduling in practice, Zhichao Cao, Yaoyao Wang, and Silin Zhang
Integrated demand-oriented and energy-efficiency train timetabling and rolling stock circulation planning for an urban rail transit line, Yu Huang, Wenliang Zhou, Guangming Xu, and Lianbo Deng
Optimization of electric bus dispatching interval considering stochastic traffic conditions, Xiaowei Hu, Zhenyang Qiu, and Wei Gao
Optimal charging scheduling of an electric bus fleet with photovoltaic-storage-charging stations, Xiuyu Hu, Hailong Li, and Chi Xie
Bi-objective robust nonlinear decision approach for en-route bus speed control considering implementation errors and traffic uncertainties, Pengjie Liu, Liang Zheng, and Nan Zheng
Sustainability in transit: Assessing the economic case for electric bus adoption in the UK, Jac McCluskey, Tom Druitt, and Charles Larkin
Model for electrification of urban public transport lines with supercapacitor buses: A case study of Belgrade, Marko Stokić and Branka Dimitrijević
A data-driven mixed-integer linear programming approach for real-time rescheduling of urban rail transit under rolling stock faults, Boyi Su, Andrea D'Ariano, Shuai Su, Zhikai Wang, and Tao Tang
A risk-averse two-stage stochastic programming approach for backup rolling stock allocation and metro train rescheduling under uncertain disturbances, Boyi Su, Andrea D'Ariano, Shuai Su, Zhikai Wang, Marta Leonina Tessitore, and Tao Tang
Toward real-time operations of modular-vehicle transit services: From rolling horizon control to learning-based approach, Qingyun Tian, Yun Hui Lin, David Z.W. Wang, and Kaidi Yang
Optimal public transport timetabling with autonomous-vehicle units using coupling and decoupling tactics, Yaoyao Wang, Avishai (Avi) Ceder, Zhichao Cao, and Silin Zhang
Carbon-efficient timetable optimization for urban railway systems considering wind power consumption, Chaoxian Wu, Washington Ochieng, Kuang-Chang Pien, and Wen-Long Shang
Investigating scheduling of minibus taxis in South Africa's eventual electric paratransit, J. Wust, J. Bekker, and M.J. Booysen
Dynamic adjustment strategy of electric bus operations: A spatial branch-and-bound method with acceleration techniques, Yin Yuan, Shukai Li, Andrea D’Ariano, Tommaso Bosi, and Lixing Yang
Dynamic interlining in bus operations, Seyedmostafa Zahedi, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, and Zhenliang Ma
A stochastic programming model for designing bus bridging services under metro disruptions, Lu Zhen, Xueqin Du, Haolin Li, and Zanyang Wu
Submissions from 2024
Optimizing sustainable urban mobility: A comprehensive review of electric bus scheduling strategies and future directions, Foroogh Behnia, Beth-Anne Schuelke-Leech, and Mitra Mirhassani
Optimal electric bus scheduling method under hybrid energy supply mode of photovoltaic-energy storage system-power grid, Yiming Bie, Wei Qin, and Jiabin Wu
Air–rail timetable synchronisation: Improving passenger connections in Europe within and across transportation modes, Clara Buire, Aude Marzuoli, Daniel Delahaye, and Marcel Mongeau
A branch-and-cut algorithm for scheduling train platoons in urban rail networks, Simin Chai, Jiateng Yin, Andrea D'Ariano, Ronghui Liu, Lixing Yang, and Tao Tang
Integrated capacity allocation and timetable coordination for multimodal railway networks, Simin Chai, Jiateng Yin, Tao Tang, Lixing Yang, Ronghui Liu, and Qin Luo
A simulation-based optimization approach for the recharging scheduling problem of electric buses, Chun-Chih Chiu, Hao Huang, and Ching-Fu Chen
Adaptive scheduling of mixed bus services with flexible fleet size assignment under demand uncertainty, Andy H.F. Chow, Guang-yu Li, and Cheng-shuo Ying
Evaluating railway junction infrastructure: A queueing-based, timetable-independent analysis, Tamme Emunds and Nils Nießen
Planning a zero-emission mixed-fleet public bus system with minimal life cycle cost, Nathalie Marion Frieß and Ulrich Pferschy
Revisiting the richness of integrated vehicle and crew scheduling, Liping Ge, Natalia Kliewer, Abtin Nourmohammadzadeh, Stefan Voß, and Lin Xie
Integrated optimization of train timetabling and rolling stock circulation problem with flexible short-turning and energy-saving strategies, Congcong Gong, Xiaojie Luan, Lixing Yang, Jianguo Qi, and Francesco Corman
Customised bus route design with passenger-to-station assignment optimisation, Haonan Guo, Yun Wang, Pan Shang, Xuedong Yan, and Yunlin Guan
Guiding principles for integrating on-demand transit into conventional transit networks: A review of literature and practice, Alaa Itani, Willem Klumpenhouwer, Amer Shalaby, and Brendon Hemily
Artificial intelligence for improving public transport: a mapping study, Å. Jevinger, C. Zhao, J. A. Persson, and P. Davidsson
Transmuting battery-powered buses: State-of-charge scheduling cooperative with battery and charger capacity optimization, Shahriar Kamalinia, Mohamad Amin Gharibi, Mahdi Faraji, Hamed Nafisi, and Marco Merlo
Integrated charging scheduling and operational control for an electric bus network, Rémi Lacombe, Nikolce Murgovski, Sébastien Gros, and Balázs Kulcsár
Modeling Urban Railway Passengers’ Willingness to Wait Based on Latent Class Analysis, Hwan-Seung Lee, Ho-Chan Kwak, Eun-Seo Han, and Ho-Chul Park
An adaptive route choice model for integrated fixed and flexible transit systems, David Leffler, Wilco Burghout, Oded Cats, and Erik Jenelius
Data-driven timetable design and passenger flow control optimization in metro lines, Jinpeng Liang, Mengxue Ren, Kang Huang, and Ziyou Gao
Measuring route diversity in spatial and spatial-temporal public transport networks, Jin-Yang Li, Jing Teng, and Hui Wang
Scheduling shared passenger and freight transport for an underground logistics system, Siqiao Li, Xiaoning Zhu, Pan Shang, Li Wang, and Tianqi Li
Human-Machine collaborative decision-making approach to scheduling customized buses with flexible departure times, Tao Liu, Hailin You, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis, and Oded Cats
Festival timetable synchronization of metro trains and high-speed railway trains for late-night operations: an integrated bi-directional transfer optimization model, Xuan Li, Yan Liu, and Quan Zhang
Optimizing transport frequency in multi-layered urban transportation networks for pandemic prevention, Calum MacRury, Nykyta Polituchyi, Paweł Prałat, Kinga Siuta, and Przemysław Szufel
A hybrid metaheuristic to optimize electric first-mile feeder services with charging synchronization constraints and customer rejections, Tai-Yu Ma, Yumeng Fang, Richard D. Connors, Francesco Viti, and Haruko Nakao
On the prediction of intermediate-to-long term bus section travel time with the Burr mixture autoregressive model, Victor Jian Ming Low, Hooi Ling Khoo, and Wooi Chen Khoo
On the impact of co-optimizing station locations, trip assignment, and charging schedules for electric buses, Rito Brata Nath, Tarun Rambha, and Maximilian Schiffer
Mixed-fleet operation of battery electric bus and hydrogen bus: Considering limited depot size with flexible refueling processes, Yiyang Peng, Guoyuan Li, Min Xu, and Anthony Chen
The economics of public transport electrification: When does infrastructure investment matter?, Kelvin Say, Felix Gabriel Brown, and Zsuzsanna Csereklyei
A pattern-based timetabling strategy for a short-turning metro line, Tommaso Schettini, Michel Gendreau, Ola Jabali, and Federico Malucelli
Optimizing block configuration and operation protocol for extra-long metro trains, Shiyu Shen, Jesus Osorio, and Yanfeng Ouyang
Study on Tram Travel-Time Reliability Characteristics for Optimal Traffic Signal Control, Lijuan Shi, Siqi Zhou, Yuntao Chang, and Qirui Zhang
Train Rescheduling of Urban Rail Transit Under Bi-Direction Disruptions in Operation Section, Yajie Sun, Weiteng Zhou, Yuxuan Long, Lei Qian, and Baoming Han
Optimal variable vehicle scheduling strategy for a network of electric buses with fast opportunity charging, Chunyan Tang, He Xue, Avishai (Avi) Ceder, and Ying-En Ge
Multi-Modal Urban Traffic Transfer Schedule Timetable Bi-Objective Optimization: Model, Algorithm, Comparison, and Case Study, Feng Tian, Jie Liang, and Ruihan Chen
A variable-splitting Lagrangian decomposition for train timetabling and skip-stopping with train-type decision, Xiaopeng Tian, Huimin Niu, Yuxing Jiang, and Hetian Chai
Real-time railway traffic management under moving-block signalling: A literature review and research agenda, Nina D. Versluis, Egidio Quaglietta, Rob M.P. Goverde, Paola Pellegrini, and Joaquin Rodriguez
Passenger-oriented rolling stock scheduling in the metro system with multiple depots: Network flow based approaches, Entai Wang, Lixing Yang, Jiateng Yin, Jinlei Zhang, and Ziyou Gao
Robust optimization of train timetables with short-length and full-length services considering uncertain passenger volume and service choice behavior, Fangsheng Wang, Pengling Wang, Zixuan Zhu, Ruihua Xu, Hanchuan Pan, and Nikola Bešinović
Enhancing the evacuation efficiency through the two-step optimization of train timetable and response vehicles during metro disruptions, Hui Wang, Feng Li, Bin Jia, Ziyou Gao, Jialin Liu, Hongliang Zhang, and Dongdong Song
Flexible rolling stock composition strategy in urban rail transit lines: The influences of various train units and station capacities, Pengling Wang, Xiaofang Xiao, and Nils Nießen
Urban rail train timetabling for the end-of-service period with passenger accessibility and operation cost: An advanced benders decomposition algorithm, Fang Wen, Yao Chen, Yun Bai, Qiaozhen Zhu, and Ninghai Li
Improving passenger travel efficiency through a dynamic autonomous non-stop rail transit system, Pei-Yang Wu, Ren-Yong Guo, Zhiyuan Lin, Ronghui Liu, and Pu Xu
Dynamic scheduling of flexible bus services with hybrid requests and fairness: Heuristics-guided multi-agent reinforcement learning with imitation learning, Weitiao Wu, Yanchen Zhu, and Ronghui Liu
Integrated timetabling and vehicle scheduling of an intermodal urban transit network: A distributionally robust optimization approach, Dongyang Xia, Jihui Ma, and Sh. Sharif Azadeh
Estimation of schedule preference and crowding perception in urban rail corridor commuting: An inverse optimization method, Pu Xu, Tian-Liang Liu, Qiong Tian, Bingfeng Si, Wei Liu, and Hai-Jun Huang
A mixed-integer programming-based Q-learning approach for electric bus scheduling with multiple termini and service routes, Yimo Yan, Haomin Wen, Yang Deng, Andy H.F. Chow, Qihao Wu, and Yong-Hong Kuo
En-route charge scheduling for an electric bus network: Stochasticity and real-world practice, Ziling Zeng, Tingsong Wang, and Xiaobo Qu
Optimising modular-autonomous-vehicle transit service employing coupling–decoupling operations plus skip-stop strategy, Jiyu Zhang, Ying-En Ge, Chunyan Tang, and Meisu Zhong
Optimization of Electric Bus Scheduling Considering Charging Station Resource Constraints, Mingye Zhang, Min Yang, Yu Li, and Shiyu Huang
A general metro timetable rescheduling approach for the minimisation of the capacity loss after random line disruption, Shuang Zhang, Yanqiu Cheng, Kuanmin Chen, Chen Ma, Jie Wei, and Xianbiao Hu
Optimal design of electric bus short turning and interlining strategy, Wenwei Zhang and Hui Zhao
Strategic dispatch of electric buses for resilience enhancement of urban energy systems, Xi Zhang, Zihang Dong, Fenyu Huangfu, Yujian Ye, Goran Strbac, and Congging Kang
Handling uncertainty in train timetable rescheduling: A review of the literature and future research directions, Shuguang Zhan, Jiemin Xie, S.C. Wong, Yongqiu Zhu, and Francesco Corman
Electric bus scheduling with the self-adaptive charging strategy based on a course selection idea, Hankun Zheng, Huijun Sun, Liujiang Kang, Jianjun Wu, and Xin Guo
Adjusting Train Timetables Based on Passenger Flow for Cross-Line Trains, Jiacheng Zheng, Fang Cao, and Xiaohui Li
Feeder bus service design under spatially heterogeneous demand, Li Zhen and Weihua Gu
Train rescheduling for a metro circle line: a comparison of different response rules, Yicheng Zhou, Yihui Wang, Christian Liebchen, Songwei Zhu, Bohan Li, and Datian Zhou
Charging facility planning and scheduling problems for battery electric bus systems: A comprehensive review, Yu Zhou, Hua Wang, Yun Wang, Bin Yu, and Tianpei Tang
Joint optimization of bus scheduling and seat allocation for reservation-based travel, Chuang Zhu, Jianjun Wu, Xin Guo, Huijun Sun, and Der-Horng Lee
Demand-driven integrated train timetabling and rolling stock scheduling on urban rail transit line, Siyu Zhuo, Jianrui Miao, Lingyun Meng, Liya Yang, and Pan Shang
Submissions from 2023
Transfer time optimisation in public transit networks: assessment of alternative models, Zahra Ansarilari, Mahmood Mahmoodi Nesheli, Merve Bodur, and Amer Shalaby
A stochastic model for reliability analysis of periodic train timetables, Mehmet Şirin Artan and İsmail Şahin
Electric bus fleet scheduling under travel time and energy consumption uncertainty, Farzad Avishan, İhsan Yanıkoğlu, and Yaseen Alwesabi
Short-Term Passenger Flow Prediction Using a Bus Network Graph Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network Model, Asiye Baghbani, Nizar Bouguila, and Zachary Patterson
Similarity-based bus services assignment with capacity constraint for staggered bus stops, Qiaowen Bai and Ghim Ping Ong
Evaluating the impact of public transport travel time inaccuracy and variability on socio-spatial inequalities in accessibility, Carlos Kaue V. Braga, Carlos Felipe Grangeiro Loureiro, and Rafael H.M. Pereira
Scheduling of Coupled Train Platoons for Metro Networks: A Passenger Demand-Oriented Approach, Simin Chai, Jiateng Yin, Andrea D'Ariano, Marcella Samà, and Tao Tang
Train schedule optimization for commuter-metro networks, Simin Chai, Jiateng Yin, Andrea D'Ariano, Marcella Samà, and Tao Tang
First train timetable synchronization with interval trains in subway networks, Yu-Zhang Chen, Cong-Ling Shi, Christian G. Claudel, and Mao-Bin Hu
Hierarchical optimal control framework to automatic train regulation combined with energy-efficient speed trajectory calculation in metro lines, Zebin Chen, Shukai Li, and Lixing Yang
Double-battery configuration method for electric bus operation in cold regions, Yuan Cong, Heqi Wang, Yiming Bie, and Jiabin Wu
The bus synchronization timetabling problem with dwelling times, Cristián E. Cortés, Cristiam Gil, Antonio Gschwender, and Pablo A. Rey
Modeling dwell time in a data-rich railway environment: With operations and passenger flows data, Rémi Coulaud, Christine Keribin, and Gilles Stoltz
Joint optimal vehicle and recharging scheduling for mixed bus fleets under limited chargers, Shaohua Cui, Kun Gao, Bin Yu, Zhenliang Ma, and Arsalan Najafi
Exploring the drive-by sensing power of bus fleet through active scheduling, Zhuang Dai and Ke Han
Integrated optimization of electric bus scheduling and charging planning incorporating flexible charging and timetable shifting strategies, Mengyuan Duan, Feixiong Liao, Geqi Qi, and Wei Guan
Effects on operating costs of adjusting bus departure times during peak-hour traffic in Sweden, Eva-Lena Eriksson, Helene Lidestam, and Lena Winslott Hiselius
Optimal charging station locations and durations for a transit route with battery-electric buses: A two-stage stochastic programming approach with consideration of weather conditions, S. Esmaeilnejad, L. Kattan, and S. C. Wirasinghe
Combined Effect of Changes in Transit Service and Changes in Occupancy on Per-Passenger Energy Consumption, Huiying Fan, Hongyu Lu, Ziyi Dai, Reid Passmore, Angshuman Guin, Kari Watkins, and Randall Guensler
Optimization framework for integrated battery electric bus planning and charging scheduling, Pranav Gairola and N. Nezamuddin
An exact optimization method for coordinating the arrival times of urban rail lines at a common corridor, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis, Oded Cats, Tao Liu, and J. M. Bult
Periodic Optimization of Bus Dispatching Times and Vehicle Schedules Considering the COVID-19 Capacity Limits: A Dutch Case Study, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis and Tao Liu
